Cosmic-Ray Positron Identification with the PAMELA experiment

2013/06/10 by O. Adriani, Adriani, O., G. C. Barbarino +138
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.2198

4 pages, 4 figures, v2: MLP variable description added, bibliography updated. A revised version will appear in proc. 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013

openalex publication_date 2013/06/10 · arxiv created 2013/07/25 · arxiv updated 2013/07/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The PAMELA satellite borne experiment is designed to study cosmic rays with great accuracy in a wide energy range. One of PAMELA's main goal is the study of the antimatter component of cosmic rays. The experiment, housed on board the Russian satellite Resurs-DK1, was launched on June 15th 2006 and it is still taking data. In this work we present the measurement of galactic positron energy spectrum in the energy range between 500 MeV and few hundred GeV.

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